It is with great pleasure that the American Naturopathic Physicians and
Surgeons Association, Inc. presents this printing of the textbook by Harry Riley
Spitler.

Naturopathy was already being pushed underground at its printing in 1948 by
imperial allopathic medicine, which, like any religion - albeit in this case, of
evolutionary materialism - brooked no competition. By hook and by crook
Naturopathy was pushed into the background while allopathic medicine with its
loudly proclaimed "wonder-drugs" and improved surgery claimed that they held the
Holy Grail of health and long life for all.

In 1999, looking backwards, one can only wonder how these Allopaths managed
to buy legislatures, engage in dirty tricks, and outright lie about their
achievements in order to push Naturopathic Medicine into the catacombs.

As one reads this textbook, one can only marvel at the chance America lost
for true health and happiness. In our age of iatrogenically caused
disease, with its astronomically increasing rates of chronic degenerative
disease, new, more potent and anti-biotic resistant viruses and bacteria, health
for most Americans is truly a lost dream.

In place of allopathic "medical science" which is not "science" at all, but
sheer empiricism which changes from day to day - with yesterday's "medical
science" today's quackery, and today's "science" the quackery of tomorrow - one
may note that truth does not change. The truths, which Spitler expounds in
Basic Naturopathy, remain as true today as when he wrote
them.